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Yeah, it is a complicated topic, but it comes up a lot. It might help to show how it dissects so you can put together similar structures later on. It’s basically a way of expressing a quantity of something specific, so it takes this form:
{quantity} {counter} の {specific thing}
So going back to your example:
{specific thing}= this is the easiest, we know it’s a cat, 猫「ねこ」
{quantity}=3 (reading is going to likely be さん.)
{counter}= since cat is a small animal, we’ll use 匹. The numbers 1, 3, and 8 typically affect “h” sounding counters, thus the reading changes from ひき to びきThen plug those into the formula and bam, さんびきのねこ
This is only one way that counters are used, and it does take time and practice. The more examples you see the more it will start to make sense.
This page explains it much more plainly, and gives you a better picture of how the counters fit in along with exceptions:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/counting
Incidentally, I believe your example should’ve been 三匹の猫「さんびきのねこ」
To generalize, こと is used in this case to make a verb behave like a noun. It is much like “-ing” in English, but that’s an over-simplification. Once you’ve done that you can attribute other things to it, like saying 読むことが好きだ
Another common example you may see is expressing the ability to do something, in the form 「dict. verb」こと が できる
This isn’t the only means of expressing such things, as you’ll sometimes see の serving a similar role as こと but its usage is a little different. The TF lesson on nominalization goes into more detail on that, however.
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Jason.
What I do is take any sentence that has an audio-clip, and you can right-click the play button and selecting “Save Link As…” or something to that effect. Then you’ll have the file. In Anki, when you add the card you can copy/paste the sentence and meaning in as you need and in the Audio part you’ll want to click the paper-clip icon in the toolbar. That will allow you to select the file you just downloaded. I’ve heard about using software to make audio files for sentences that don’t have audio, but I’ve not really wanted to try that approach out of fear that it would teach me the wrong way to say something.
I certainly noticed this as well, so I’ve taken to making my own cards for sentences and pulling in the mp3 files from the lessons where I can.
Oh my yes that is an old version. Maybe the developer forgot they even had a version in the amazon store. Still, you might be able to sideload it without having to go through the potentially painful process of rooting. You can download any version from this site, but I’d recommend the 4th one down which should be something like 2.0.1.
Well I’m likely getting it a little mixed up. Although I know there is a specific context where you would use いる / います and not ある / あります. I vaguely recall being corrected on that one.
EDIT: Season 6, Lesson 4 explains it far better. That’s what I was thinking of.
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おおきくありません is a more polite form, perhaps more in reference to inanimate objects. Example, くるまはおおきくありません (The car is not big). Because it uses the negative form of ある, you would not use it with a living thing so 犬はおおきくありません would be incorrect and you would instead say 犬はおおきくないです。
わかりましたか？
Yes, I switch between my android phone and my computer all the time. Here’s how you find it in AnkiDroid…
Press the Menu button and select Sync Account. You’ll get an option somewhere in there to enter your anki login,
One that amuses me is 仙, can be either hermit or wizard. Broken down by radicals 人 and 山, a person in the mountains. I imagine a crazy robed man standing on the mountain pass, hurling bolts of lightning (wizard), and if you approach and ask him his name he says “There are some who would call me…Tim?”
I use Aedict. The thing I like about it is the dictionary is available offline, which can be very useful for a number of reasons.
You probably have kana input turned on by accident. You can tell if you look down at the toolbar and see where it says KANA it will be highlighted differently. To change it, click the wrench icon and go to Properties. You’ll see right in the General tab Input method. I hope that helps. 頑張ってね！
Yes, it is more common to see it with an honorific. Don’t think I’ve hardly ever seen it without it. It is certainly used with the verb “to take a bath”: お風呂に入る「おふろにはいる」
Overlooking the obvious is very likely. I recently posted my first entry, and I had multiple native speakers overlook a mistake where I typed 周間 instead of 週間. Most curious.
Did you review the anki deck that’s in the in the Kanji 1-1 section prior to that practice page? 一人 should be in that deck somewhere.
http://www.textfugu.com/downloads/anki/vocab/kanji/kanjivocab1-1.zip
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